6 ms·

Googlabilty of the name is really bad. Rename it to something else e.g. HRest

by lukasm 12y ago

PMan74 12y ago
Or Resth, (unless somebody in the lisp community bagged that one already)
- lynndylanhurley 12y ago
  Hahahaha
- btown 12y ago
  Makes you realize that any possible name for a REST framework for Go is inherently an oxymoron...
- anaphor 12y ago
  Nobody thought of Hest? I admit it does sound kind of silly though, but it's got the 'H' at least, and it doesn't sound like Rest.
  - bergmark 12y ago
    Man, I should have thought of this, ( http://kausti.com/blogg/uploadedimages/snelhest.jpg http://kausti.com/blogg/uploadedimages/snelhest.jpg ). But like PBH says "The name is the most important part of a project, and once you have a name there's NO GOING BACK"
  - Dewie 12y ago
    With that name you can get a mascot, too: http://en.bab.la/dictionary/danish-english/hest http://en.bab.la/dictionary/danish-english/hest
    - dllthomas 12y ago
      No reason they can't use that mascot regardless!
sfvisser 12y ago
Really doesn't matter, the target audience will either use Hackage (Haskell's package database) or will prefix Haskell to their search term.
- deleted 12y ago
  [deleted]
jamesbritt 12y ago
Or Rhest. (But even then it makes it hard to actually talk about in person.) What motivates people to name projects after simple, common words? Strikes me as a conceptual land-grab.
- stdbrouw 12y ago
  I'm more often annoyed by projects named after mythological creatures, vegetables or puns. They're fun for a while, but when I import something into a project, it helps if it's at least a little bit self-documenting – `import Rest` rather than `import Bazooka`, say.
  - deleted 12y ago
    [deleted]
- tel 12y ago
  There's a little bit of that in Haskell right now. It's kind of OK with, say, `profunctors` which probably has everything anyone could ever imagine about profunctors in Haskell. Furthermore, as a mathematical concept there is not a lot of possible variability in that library. Similarly, `lens` right now has pretty much everything under the sun about lenses, though some prefer the simpler lens packages like `lens-family`. I kind of feel less confident about the choice around `rest` since there are many interpretations and implementation choices which may lead to a desire for competition here. But I'll reserve actual judgement until I use it. I wouldn't at all mind a comprehensive, provably correct webmachine-like implementation of REST called `rest`.
  - sfvisser 12y ago
    > I kind of feel less confident about the choice around `rest` since there are many interpretations and implementation choices which may lead to a desire for competition here. I feel the same about lens :) Note that we didn't even upload a package called 'rest'. We uploaded a family of packages starting with 'rest-'.
    - 12y ago
danidiaz 12y ago
I once wrote a Haskell library for Java Swing application automation. I thought of calling it HSwing, but to my surprise (and, eventually, horror) the domain was already taken.
- codygman 12y ago
  You could have named it Shwing, though that name is a bit exclusionary.

Googlabilty of the name is really bad. Rename it to something else e.g. HRest

by lukasm 12y ago

Googlabilty of the name is really bad. Rename it to something else e.g. HRest

PMan74 12y ago

Or Resth, (unless somebody in the lisp community bagged that one already)

lynndylanhurley 12y ago
Hahahaha
btown 12y ago
Makes you realize that any possible name for a REST framework for Go is inherently an oxymoron...
anaphor 12y ago
Nobody thought of Hest? I admit it does sound kind of silly though, but it's got the 'H' at least, and it doesn't sound like Rest.
- bergmark 12y ago
  Man, I should have thought of this, ( http://kausti.com/blogg/uploadedimages/snelhest.jpg http://kausti.com/blogg/uploadedimages/snelhest.jpg ). But like PBH says "The name is the most important part of a project, and once you have a name there's NO GOING BACK"
- Dewie 12y ago
  With that name you can get a mascot, too: http://en.bab.la/dictionary/danish-english/hest http://en.bab.la/dictionary/danish-english/hest
  - dllthomas 12y ago
    No reason they can't use that mascot regardless!

sfvisser 12y ago

Really doesn't matter, the target audience will either use Hackage (Haskell's package database) or will prefix Haskell to their search term.

deleted 12y ago
[deleted]

jamesbritt 12y ago

Or Rhest. (But even then it makes it hard to actually talk about in person.) What motivates people to name projects after simple, common words? Strikes me as a conceptual land-grab.

stdbrouw 12y ago
I'm more often annoyed by projects named after mythological creatures, vegetables or puns. They're fun for a while, but when I import something into a project, it helps if it's at least a little bit self-documenting – `import Rest` rather than `import Bazooka`, say.
- deleted 12y ago
  [deleted]
tel 12y ago
There's a little bit of that in Haskell right now. It's kind of OK with, say, `profunctors` which probably has everything anyone could ever imagine about profunctors in Haskell. Furthermore, as a mathematical concept there is not a lot of possible variability in that library. Similarly, `lens` right now has pretty much everything under the sun about lenses, though some prefer the simpler lens packages like `lens-family`. I kind of feel less confident about the choice around `rest` since there are many interpretations and implementation choices which may lead to a desire for competition here. But I'll reserve actual judgement until I use it. I wouldn't at all mind a comprehensive, provably correct webmachine-like implementation of REST called `rest`.
- sfvisser 12y ago
  > I kind of feel less confident about the choice around `rest` since there are many interpretations and implementation choices which may lead to a desire for competition here. I feel the same about lens :) Note that we didn't even upload a package called 'rest'. We uploaded a family of packages starting with 'rest-'.
  - 12y ago

danidiaz 12y ago

I once wrote a Haskell library for Java Swing application automation. I thought of calling it HSwing, but to my surprise (and, eventually, horror) the domain was already taken.

codygman 12y ago
You could have named it Shwing, though that name is a bit exclusionary.